Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-30
CLEANED FROM THE MAILS.

The Norfolk Y. NJ. G. A. made its General
| Secretary, E. T. Dadmun, Christmas pres
ent of a gold watch and chain. The Danville
Y NJ. G. A. has employed T. G. Diggs of Va,
as its General Secretary. He was trained al
| Binghampton, N. Y. The Y. M. G. A. build
ing at Luray is nearly completed and is q
credit to the town and to the Association.
It is stated in a Lexington letter to the
Lynehburg ''Yirginia' that Rev. A. S. Boude
of the Rockbridge News" has sold a three
fourths interest in it to j. Scott Moore, San
uel J. Graham and NJ. W. Paxton. The first
Of the three is to be business manage, and
the last two are the editors.
The gifts sent the Pope by the rulers of all
civilized countries and by private individuals
without number, III celebration of his golden
iu5ilee-his fftieth year in the priesthood
are said to be worth $15, C00,000 in money
President Cleveland sent him a splendidly
printed and bound copy Of the Constitution
of the United States.
Gen. Joseph e. Johnston has filed bill at
the Equity Court in Washington city against
Henry II McLane, of Baltimore, and Robert
and Helene Hoomelle, of Paris, for partition
and sale of lot in square 164. of which his
late wife, Lydia McLane Johnston, was in
part the owner.
Hereafter, the Staunton hotels will miss the
visits of members of the West Virginia legis-
lature who came this roundabout way to gel
to their capital, Charleston. The last spoke
was driven in the Ohio River Ry. from Point
Pleasant to Huntington, and now through
trains from Wheeling to Huntington are run.
| Loudoun county, Va, paid $500 this year,
it is stated, for hawk scalps.
The number of new canneries to go into
operation in Botetourt county the coming
spring, is nineteen.
DR., James L. Cabell. Professor of Physio-
logy and Surgery at the University of Virginia
for fifty years, ike semi-centennial was mark
ed last week by the old pupils from thirty
States presenting him with golden goblet.
His present pupils presented him with a
writing desk.
Page county stands at the head of the Val
ley list, this season, for raising the largest
hog Peter Long, of that county, has just
butchered one weighing seven hundred and ten
pounds. 1t was feet from tip to tip and
feet in girth
The Commonwealth Attorney of Highland
county has brought suits against all persons
who have attempted to pay their taxes by
standing on the tender of coupons
The Charlottesville papers say that Capt Fl.
G. Niche, of that town, has just sold 300
acres of land at Decatur. Ala, for $150,000,
and sold an option Oh another tract there, the
price of which is to be $3.50, OOO
DIR. H. M. Grant of Abingdon, twice Presi-
dent of the Virginia Dental Association, is
dead.
The daughter of Gen. Logan married a
Mr.. Tucker, and ex-Congressman Tucker
daughter married a Mr.. Logan. A son has
been the fruit of the marriage in each in
stance, and the boys bear, respectively the
names of Logan Tucker and Tucker Logan.
Nina Van Zandt, the proxy widow of Augustus
Spies the Anarchist has had several offers Of
marriage since the execution of Spies, which
she has declined on the ground that she does
not expect to live long. She has recently
written an able bodied letter in response to
statements made by 'the hireling liars of the
crazy, jackal press"
On the second trial a jury in PittsylYania